The gentlest bus driver in the world

Roscoe 2022-04-21 09:02:27

He is a bus driver with the same name as the town where he lives.

His daily itinerary is fixed and similar in content: his work is driving, and the intervals between work are observing, thinking and writing poetry. He started with the simplest things, little matchboxes. Write about love for your wife. Write the dimensions of life. After get off work, when he gets home, he will briefly talk to each other for a day with his beautiful wife, and then immerse himself in the basement replenishment or creation. Walk the dog at night and have a drink at the same bar on the way to walk the dog, talk about the town and talk to each other.

He treats life tenderly, capturing the details of daily life and the slits of the soul; he treats his wife tenderly, respecting her preferences and choices; he treats his passengers tenderly, regardless of gender, age, and politeness.

Even on weekends, after his notebook of poems was torn to shreds by the dog at home, he did not get angry, but became lost and depressed, for the words that disappeared from the world before they could be photocopied, until When he met another poet who rescued him, he took out the pen holder from his pocket and began to stretch the words on the paper freely.

He's probably the most gentle bus driver on screen so far, and his name is Patterson.

It is worth mentioning that the film gives the audience a working perspective of a bus driver: they are in a moving high-angle area on the street, in order to observe the flow of things on both sides of the street, the eyes imprint the picture in the mind like a camera, and The content of the conversation of the passengers in the front seat of the car at that time may also attract the attention of the driver, who will debate in their hearts, absorb new ideas or just laugh it off.

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Extended Reading

Paterson quotes

  • Doc: Paterson, you still don't got a cell phone?

    Paterson: Uh, no. No, I don't want one. It would be a leash.

    Doc: What about the better half, she got one?

    Paterson: She's got one, yeah. And the laptop, and an iPad...

    Doc: She doesn't want you to get one?

    Paterson: No. She's okay about it. She understands me really well.

    Doc: [mutters] A lucky guy.

  • Laura: You're up late, honey. Your silent magic watch didn't wake you up.

    Paterson: Yeah, it was a little late today.

    Laura: Well, somedays something inside just doesn't want to get up. Ever feel like that?

    Paterson: Today.